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Medical Malaise
Dear Editor,
There is a justified reason for government elites and the rich not utilising local medical personnel and facilities. And by the way, this is consistent with the late Dr. Cheddie Jagan’s invidious philosophy. After all, the man was smart enough to ensure that his progeny be immersed in capitalist America, but at the same time, equally wicked, choosing communistic ideologies for the nation.
In Guyana, especially Government Ministers, the choice is never to trust the local medical fraternity, and not just the Cuban trained doctors.
Instead, this sybaritically vile coterie, seek medical attention elsewhere. So you see, the government gives to the nation that which its members will not take.
The recent unprecedented and still unabated number of maternal fatalities has gone unnoticed, and now this new acceptance of medical malpractice is the norm. This now further fortifies the utter docileness of the nation. People are now totally inured. The culture of corruption now extends to the culture of treating human life in a most mundane and matter-of-fact manner. It seems as though, under the aegis of the PPP, that Guyana has new and ridiculous ways of inventing new lows. Imagine! And now think.
Egregiously horrible-cattle on the road, drivers with a beer in hand, ear-deafening music from taxis, garbage dumping/littering, vagrants in the streets, etc. Believe it-these ‘raise no eyebrows.’
In fact, these define Guyana. I reiterate: Guyana is a land characterised and defined namely by cattle on the road, drivers with a beer in hand, ear-deafening music from taxis, garbage dumping/littering, and vagrants in the streets (So much for tourism).
Recently, the supposed amputation/removal of a patient’s appendix, redounding in death, went unnoticed.
This deceased patient was supposed to have that organ removed, yet the post-mortem report disclosed otherwise. Another case in point was when a doctor, attached to a city hospital, diagnosed a gallstone condition for a patient. During surgery, this medical quack discovered that the condition was not what he first ‘assumed.’ So in his ‘medical sagacity’, he removed the entire gall bladder.
This too has gone unnoticed. Now that patient can never know what the real condition was, since the pre-surgical symptoms still remain.
It seems as if no one cares, and ‘to hell’ with all and sundry.
One can get really angry at the Keane Austin/Georgetown Hospital and the Cuban trained/Suddie Hospital cases and see the scenario. Well, I advocate at least one drastic measure.
First, affected and deeply hurt loved ones must act. The longer one waits, the harder it will be to act, and the very worst will be the norm. Act Now!
Shane Rizwan
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